Meetup: Social Events & Groups

This app used to be so easy to find an event and just show up. Now they made the app very difficult to navigate. It's not so much a learning curve, it's bad flow to gather information. And clobbered with ways to get your money...I get they need to make money, but to ask me to join EVERY time I open an event is messed up. And it's full of online events that I constantly have to reset the filter on to hide. It's such a headache to use, I open it, try to find something then just close it. Awful.

Update 01/2025: going to the group page no longer shows "about this group." It's just a tiny arrow to open the section. Going to an event, the same thing happens with the description. Leading to unnecessary questions, or unprepared event participants. OP: I've tried to be patient through the changes, but this app is barely functional. Comments cannot be replied to; the map just puts in whatever address it wants. And I'm paying to organize so that the app can get my members lost. Top notch.

search bar is useless now. I don't know what happened but suddenly the search bar will not find anything in my state! My location is on! but everything is in newyork I DO NOT WANT TO GO THERE! it's a cluster but no matter what I do this thing can't seem to find ANYTHING near me only recently! Before this everything was fine and there's NO filter filter out NYC

Extremely slow, & buggy at times. For being mostly a text based app with few graphics, Meetup is annoyingly slow. Group pages & events take too long to load even when connected to strong wifi. Sometimes events dated for 2 days way say "happening tomorrow". In the past year, it started adding annoying pop up ads after you RSVP to an event, as well as popups to rate previously attended events. I've not found a way to turn off any of these options. Overall it seems updates don't make improvements

The ability to create and find local meetups is awesome and worth 2+ stars. But the app itself is buggy, frequently freezes or doesn't load, and they recently put many features behind paywall: seeing new ppl attending events (makes new ppl/events awkward not knowing name/face, maybe even dangerous), seeing groups ppl are in (makes discovery difficult). The paid user ad pops up Every.Single.Time you look at attendees and many other things. After 2min on the app I just got the popup 6 times.

The app has worked very well so far, but recently I am unable to login on the app and have to use the web version, my information works when entering it on web but says that my app version doesn't work at all. It's making it impossible to use and keep up with the current events in my area and I have emailed the developers twice since this started with absolutely no answer. There are others I know of with the same issue I'm having.

I've been using this app for years. It used to be a simple, functional scrolling list. Now you have to look at a slow-loading picture fo every single Meetup as if you are a two-year old and can't decide on an event without a big, pretty fake ad/photo to go with it. I guess Marketing has to justify its existence, but this is so hamfisted. It makes the app so hard to use. Go back to simple and functional.